People v. Barndt

The People bring this interlocutory appeal from an order by the El Paso County District Court suppressing evidence seized in connection with the defendant’s arrest for possession and sale of narcotics and dangerous drugs. The trial court ruled that a prior unlawful search of the defendant’s house by police officers had tainted the later seizure with illegality and that the conduct was severe enough to require suppression of the seized evidence, even though the later seizure had been pursuant to a warrant. We affirm the ruling in part and reverse the ruling in part.

Testimony at the suppression…